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our presidential campaign
Have you noticed how the lion has a set of priorities different from
the little animals --even when it means life or death to them? "United States - The death toll on our highways makes driving the number one cause of death and injury for young people ages 5 to 27. Highway crashes cause 94 percent of all transportation fatalities and 99 percent of all transportation injuries, yet *traffic safety programs receive only one percent of the funding of the U.S. DOT budget*. The staggering loss of life and the incidence of life- threatening injuries occurring each year is best described as a public health crisis." http://www.safecarguide.com/exp/stat...statistics.htm Here's the story of the lion... HOW THE LION BENEFITS FROM THE LITTLE ANIMALS' POVERTY One day all the little animals went up to the King of the Jungle and complained about their poverty, and in particular about the fact that every time, during the dry season, they had to travel long distances to drink the precious fluid, and demanded a WATER WELL be built for them... They cited how the resources that they contributed to the kingdom were wasted in WARS and EXTRAVAGANT PROJECTS to the tastes of the King... He, however, replied with all kinds of excuses: the lack of resources, that it wasn't a matter of him not wanting it, but that it was a matter of "priorities" --which was one of his favorite words... Meanwhile, an Owl --who had very good eyes-- had been observing life in the jungle, and thought this way: "Every time there's a dry season the little animals must come to the little dirty waterhole where the Lion waits for them... Had they been well fed and strong, he would have had to run after them and even risk resistance. And, more importantly, the little animals are forced to fight the Lion's wars as the quick way out of poverty..." And that's how the Owl landed an important --and well paid-- post in the brand new Astronomy Department created by the King of the Jungle -- to the effect of exploring life in other planets... |
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Reckless, Aggressive Drivers: Homegrown Terrorists
"Tom Sherman" wrote in message ... Jack May wrote: "Tom Sherman" wrote in message ... Jack May wrote: "donquijote1954" wrote in message ... All that is needed is adding microphones and cameras to the transponders - then the government can achieve the long awaited goal of regulating behavior of people in their homes behind closed doors. You mean like with present cell phones and WiFi which is much more powerful than is being planned for car to car communication over a short range of hundreds of feet. You have to come to grips with the fact that you are probably far too ordinary for the Government to care about anything you do. |
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Reckless, Aggressive Drivers: Homegrown Terrorists
"Bolwerk" wrote in message ... Martin Edwards wrote: Tom Sherman wrote: Jack May wrote: "Tom Sherman" wrote in message ... Jack May wrote: "donquijote1954" wrote in message ... That would only happen during a GM commercial. WTF is this thread doing in a transit group anyway? Jack's a troll. Because "donquijote1954" likes to link to a large number of newsgroups. |
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Reckless, Aggressive Drivers: Homegrown Terrorists
"donquijote1954" wrote in message ... On Feb 21, 4:18 am, Martin Edwards wrote: Jack May wrote: "Tom Sherman" wrote in message ... Jack May wrote: "donquijote1954" wrote in message ... Well, you ain't seen nothing yet. In the future people will travel through the telephone lines!!! Imagine all the space left open on our congested roads. And, of course, then bicycles and scooters will not only be safe, they'll also be redundant. Transporters have been built and are working. They work through tens of miles of fiber optics, not wires. Of course they only transport the states of atoms now using particle entanglement. Transporting people is way beyond what can be done now. |
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when 70% of drivers are banned from the road
"donquijote1954" wrote in message ... On Feb 21, 7:37 am, Bolwerk wrote: Martin Edwards wrote: Tom Sherman wrote: Jack May wrote: "Tom Sherman" wrote in message .. . Jack May wrote: "donquijote1954" wrote in message ... Sorry, but we are trying to develop alternatives (bikes, public transportation) for the moment when 70% of drivers are banned from the road... Wow what are really stupid goal. The public wants nothing to do with using bikes, public transportation, or any other alternative. All of those alternative are total failures with zero chance of replacing cars. Cars will be here long after you are dead. They will just being using alternative fuels instead of oil. The sophomoric crap at the end has been deleted... |
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Reckless, Aggressive Drivers: Homegrown Terrorists
"Pat" wrote in message ... On Feb 21, 12:03 am, "Jack May" wrote: "Tom Sherman" wrote in message ... Jack May wrote: "donquijote1954" wrote in message ... How will this prevent the cagers from squishing cyclists, pedestrians and animals? Will all of the latter have to be equipped with transponders? Probably. I think we are talking about a single chip. Since most people carry a cell phone with them these day with location electronics, maybe the law requires a transponder capability like the law now require location to be determined by each cell phone for 911 responses. If motor vehicles are developed that will not hit each others, that will make the cagers even more careless about cyclists and pedestrians. We are heading to the where the car will not be able to easily hit anything with a transponder, including people and pets. The car will automatically brake for example to keep from hitting a child that runs out into the road. That should not be hard once transponders become common. Oh give me a break. If transponders work as you want, transportation as we know it will come to a grinding halt with about 15 minutes. Scenario 1: You're cruising down the highway at 70 and your cell phone rings. You pull over and answer it (as is the law in the land of the way-to-safe). The next car down the road approaches you from the rear, gets within the whatever distance it is set to, and slams on the breaks and panic-breaks so that you don't hit the stopped car. Without a very complex set of visual cues, there's no real way to tell if that car is in your lane or not. It could be dead-ahead but not in your lane if there's a bend in the road. You car on the side of the road just induced a huge traffic jam and probably a series of back-end crashes. Oh yeah, the safety there !!! The standard use very short pulses which can measure position to inches or less. Your strawman is false. Scenario 2: You're driving down the road and your car suddenly panic stops for no reason. Everyone on the road does the same thing but nothing's going on. Meanwhile, the kids hiding in the bushes who keep turning a transponder (which they hid on the overpass right above your lane) think it's a hoot to bring traffic to a stop whenever they want. That transponder will identify its owner which will be recorded the blackbox of many cars. The police will show up at the kid's house and arrest the kid. Kids will quickly learn not to play with transponders,. Scenario 3: You get used to the technology and start pushing the limits of it. Your malfunctions some day. It doesn't stop you. You kill the family of 4 in the Pinto ahead of you. What do you not understand about increasing safety. We don't have to make it perfect, just much better than the present system Scenario 4: The government decides they are really safe and put direction transponders in traffic lights to stop all cars at a red- light so it cannot be ran. On a snowy day you look in your mirror and realize the tractor trailor is skidding and can't stop. No one is coming on the cross street in either direction. You try to run the red light to get out of the way (which is, by the way, legal) but you can't. Your only consolation is that you are crushed so bad that you get on to the nightly news. Another foolish strawman Transponders. Yeah, great idea. Yes they are, too bad you can't understand even their basics |
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when 70% of drivers are banned from the road
On Feb 21, 8:16*pm, "Jack May" wrote:
"donquijote1954" wrote in message ... On Feb 21, 7:37 am, Bolwerk wrote: Martin Edwards wrote: Tom Sherman wrote: Jack May wrote: "Tom Sherman" wrote in message .. . Jack May wrote: "donquijote1954" wrote in message ... Sorry, but we are trying to develop alternatives (bikes, public transportation) for the moment when 70% of drivers are banned from the road... Wow what are really stupid goal. * The public wants nothing to do with using bikes, public transportation, or any other alternative. *All of those alternative are total failures with zero chance of replacing cars. * Cars will be here long after you are dead. *They will just being using alternative fuels instead of oil. The sophomoric crap at the end has been deleted... Yeah sure, just because fat lazy drivers are too stupid to consider other options, it doesn't mean they wouldn't change if traffic safety were to become a presidential issue or revolution whatever. "You can't fool all the people all the time" |
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when 70% of drivers are banned from the road
"donquijote1954" wrote in message ... On Feb 21, 8:16 pm, "Jack May" wrote: "donquijote1954" wrote in message ... On Feb 21, 7:37 am, Bolwerk wrote: Martin Edwards wrote: Tom Sherman wrote: Jack May wrote: "Tom Sherman" wrote in message .. . Jack May wrote: "donquijote1954" wrote in message ... Yeah sure, just because fat lazy drivers are too stupid to consider other options, it doesn't mean they wouldn't change if traffic safety were to become a presidential issue or revolution whatever. Sorry you have to meet needs of users to get them to use something, not just call them names. That is why people like you never accomplish anything of significance in life . As I said to you previously there is a lot of money and work going into developing cars that radically drop the death and accident rates. You have presented nothing that will be anywhere near as effective as what is now being developed. |
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Reckless, Aggressive Drivers: Homegrown Terrorists
"Amy Blankenship" wrote in message . .. "Pat" wrote in message ... On Feb 21, 12:03 am, "Jack May" wrote: "Tom Sherman" wrote in message ... Jack May wrote: "donquijote1954" wrote in message ... Scenario 6: You're cruising along at 90 and hit a deer that didn't get the memo about needing a transponder. Again, the goal is not perfection, but a large improvement over the present system. Scenario 7: The government has some illicit activity going on somewhere (who knows what _already_ get up to, much less what they _would_ get up to if no one could get there) and they set up a set of transponders preventing anyone who might call it to the public's awareness from getting there. Well that would be a big indicator to a lot of people, including the bad guys, that an undercover operation is happening. |
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our presidential campaign
"donquijote1954" wrote in message ... OK, as part of our presidential campaign (it's not for me: htttp://webspawner.com/users/elections2008) we are launching a campaign to get unncessary drivers (particularly the bad ones) off the road, not by 6% in 15 years, but by 60%... Oh yes, perfectly doable if there's the political will... and transportation OPTIONS. We are waiting for Ralph Nader for our challenge to take up the issue, but if not you know the party... Banana Revolution. Funny, Nader made cars so much safer, but never worked on preventing accidents. I hope he's reading... A drive toward fewer cars There are other ways to get from A to B Wow you really insist on showing the world how you are unable to comprehend anything about society and the real world. |
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